Cultural Studies

American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting

By Steven Biel (Harvard University), Grant Wood

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering

By W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Donald S. Lopez (Professor of Buddhism and Tibetan Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Professor of Buddhism and Tibetan Studies, University of Michigan)

Some Remarks

By Neal Stephenson

Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

By Nicholas Wade

The Joy of Sheds: Because a man's place isn't in the home

By Hopkinson, Frank

Pop Charts

By Paul Copperwaite

What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

By Randall Munroe

The Heritage Obsession

By Ben Cowell

Egypt's Side Shows

By Nicholaas Biegman

Sociology

By Steve Chapman

The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century

By Nigel Blundell, Roger Boar

The Hiram Key: Pharoahs,Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Christ

By Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas

Toxic

By Sarah Ditum

Jordan: Pushed to the Limit

By Katie Price

The Role of Memory in Ethnic Conflict

By E. Cairns, M. Roe

Bodies

By Susie Orbach

The Illusion of Cultural Identity

By Jean-Francois Bayart, Steven Rendall

Living with Globalization

By Paul Hopper

Understanding Cultural Globalization

By Paul Hopper (University of Brighton)

One on One

By Craig Brown

Inside Vogue: My Diary Of Vogue's 100th Year

By Alexandra Shulman

The Chalice and the Blade

By Riane Eisler

Tabloid Television: Popular Journalism and the 'Other News'

By John Langer

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

By David Christian

Understanding Post-War British Society

By Peter Catterall, James Obelkevich

Moving the Goalposts: A History of Sport and Society in Britain since 1945

By Martin Polley

Dreams for Sale: Popular Culture

By Richard Maltby, R. Maltby

Planet Simpson: How a cartoon masterpiece documented an era and defined a generation

By Chris Turner

Considerations on Western Marxism

By Perry Anderson

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more)

By Hadley Freeman